Despite the box office failure of the second live-action Smurfs movie, Sony is going ahead with a CG Smurfs movie, Get Smurfy. Why? Because in the rest of the World the Smurfs are huge!

Sony Pictures Animation will be releasing Get Smurfy on March 31st, 2017 in North America – with a voice cast that includes Demi Lovato as Smurfette, Mandy Patinkin as Papa Smurf and Rainn Wilson and the Smurfs arch-nemesis, Gargamel.

While I was never a fan of the Smurfs, the film, which doesn’t open until August of next year, has put together a terrific cast that includes Neil Patrick Harris, Hank Azaria [as Gargamel, no less], Jayma Mays, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Anton Yelchin and Sofia Vergara – to name but a few. I’m intrigued by that cast.

Here’s a look at how the Smurfs look when they pop up in Times Square.